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Ep 8: August. Edith heads off to Scotland to stay with Mrs Donevan Adam for her holiday in a bid to avoid seeing Ernest, having written a letter telling him she has gone away. But unbeknownst to her Ernest has turned up at her home and given her holiday address in Scotland by her sister Winnie he heads up to find her. Once there he stays at the guest house where she is staying, where over a shared interest in spiritualism and nature Edith is forced to confront her feelings.
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00:00Gowan Bank, Olten, Warwickshire.
00:17Nature Notes for 1906.
00:23By Edith
00:26E.
00:30Holden.
00:46To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell,
00:50To slowly trace the forest's shady sea,
00:53Where things that own not man's dominion dwell,
00:56And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been,
00:59To climb the trackless mountain all unseen,
01:02With the wild flock that never need a fold,
01:05Alone on steeps and foaming falls to me.
01:09This is not solitude,
01:11It is but to hold converse with nature's charms,
01:14And view her stores unrolled.
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02:27I'm sure Cotland's very beautiful at this time of year Edith,
02:29and I know you need the rest,
02:31but still with your friend calling.
02:33He's not calling.
02:35I wrote and told him I'd be away from home.
02:38And he hasn't written back.
02:43so you see it was very easily put off do you think I'm going to need so many
02:51Woolies? you always said it was very cold up there. I learned to get used to it part
02:58of the training Denovan Adam always said he was so full of life and energy I'm
03:05sure his spirit is very much alive wherever it is. well Edith I just hope
03:11you'll not spend your holiday trying to make any kind of contact with it. try and
03:16think of the future. it's not healthy to dwell so much on the past. going back to
03:20the same areas and the same people. dear Winnie I shall spend a most
03:24conventional summer walking and painting as I always loved to.
03:30walk on
03:41oh dear there's a poor piece of luck. not about Ken Winnie. no there's no more news from Ken.
03:52it's just a letter for Edith that I fancy she'd like to have had. oh well send it
03:57off after her. that's easily done. it'll be there almost as soon as she is.
04:15August the 11th. travel to Callender in Perthshire.
04:19there is no breeze upon the fern. no ripple on the lake. upon her eerie nods the urn.
04:40the deer has sought the break. the small birds will not sing aloud. the springing trout lies still.
04:49so darkly looms yon thundercloud that swathes as with a purple shroud Ben Ledy's distant hill.
05:01so darkly looms yon thundercloud that swathes as with a purple shroud.
05:10thank you very much.
05:12thank you very much.
05:14thank you very much.
05:16thank you very much.
05:18thank you very much.
05:20thank you very much.
05:22thank you very much.
05:33thank you very much.
05:35thank you very much.
05:43Come soon, then through the tomb.
06:00You always were a warm, lovely girl.
06:04And when you smile, you don't look a day older.
06:06Oh, no.
06:09I was a schoolgirl then.
06:12I'm a school mom now, and something of a spinster, too.
06:16Which I don't mind, in the least.
06:20Joseph always used to say that one day you'd surprise us all.
06:25Well, maybe you haven't yet found the right turn in the road.
06:42Good heavens!
06:44Have you forgotten me, Winnie?
06:46No, of course not.
06:48But Edith's not here. I thought she'd written.
06:50Yes, I wrote to explain.
06:52I'm planning a trip to Scotland myself.
06:54I did send your letter on.
06:56Do you think she would mind very much if you were to give her Scottish address to me?
06:59I can't really speak for Edith, can I?
07:03This is absurd.
07:05She's staying with Denevan Adams' widow in Callender.
07:08Come in, and I'll give you the address.
07:10August the 14th.
07:24Went to Oban and back by the West Highland Railway.
07:28Quantities of wildflowers all along the route.
07:32On the banks, goldenrod, bluebells, and heather.
07:39And in the bogs and marshlands, meadowsweet, willowherb, trefoil, knapweed, and a small kind of scabious.
08:02What?
08:03I have no idea!
08:04I have no idea!
08:05No doubt.
08:06Take a moment.
08:07Oh, our letter is still good!
08:08Homecoming, you're my friend.
08:09Come on, Thomas.
08:10Almost a minute.
08:11Walk on.
08:12I'm brought.
08:13Come on.
08:14I'm brought.
08:15I'm brought.
08:16Come on!
08:17Run!
08:18Come on, Thomas!
08:19I'm brought!
08:20Come on, Thomas!
08:21Come on!
08:23You're brought!
08:24I've brought!
08:25We're brought!
08:26well I thought you were going to miss your supper
08:39you will tie yourself out
08:43that's what I always used to tell Joseph
08:46that he never listened either
08:47and you've a visitor too
08:50but I don't understand
08:52I'm not expecting anyone
08:53you have my letter in your hand
08:59well you wouldn't look so bewildered if you'd read it
09:04well Mrs. Dennevin Adam assures me it's no trouble to add me to her guest list
09:09that's hardly the point
09:11Edith
09:12I had a lot to do to change my holiday plans
09:15surely you won't have the cruelty to send me away
09:19no of course not
09:22perhaps you're even glad to see me a little
09:24we shall see
09:28August the 17th
09:34cycle to Aberfoyle by the lake of Menteith
09:37very bright clear day
09:40with wonderfully fine distant views
09:43growing among the heather on the high ridge of hills between Aberfoyle and the Trossocks
09:57I found the bright scarlet berries of the bearberry
10:00and sundew in flower
10:03found some gentian beside Loch Venneker
10:12this is very lovely
10:21we must cycle back by Loch Acri
10:23there are even more marvellously fine views
10:25this one looks splendidly to me
10:27now I told you this is not a holiday for the idol
10:29enough resting about
10:30you don't give a fellow much of a chance to talk to you
10:33well you'll have to get up earlier in the mornings
10:35as it is you'll have to talk as we go
10:38or we'll be late home for tea
10:39you are a hard taskmaster
10:41cycled back by Loch Acri
10:48Loch Katrin
10:50and Loch Venneker
10:51good morning
11:13it seems Mrs. Denneb and Adam has set us at the same table
11:17I hope you don't mind
11:24it'll be very pleasant
11:27as long as you talk sensibly
11:31you never give me a chance to talk any other way
11:33she's been telling me strange tales of you
11:48that you learn to commune with spirits
11:52well why not
11:55don't you think a spirit can get as lonely as we do
11:59but I'll be honest with you
12:06since you seem not to be teasing
12:07I missed my mother very much
12:11I still do
12:15yet
12:18in some strange way
12:20the past seems to be slipping from me
12:22and the spirits of the past with it
12:24Denneb and Adam is still with us
12:27they look so powerful don't they
12:32his highland cattle leaning into the wind
12:34Sarah
12:47this is where you trained with the great man
12:50yes
12:51it's empty now
12:54I spent one of the happiest years of my life here
12:58I was 23
13:01what a baby I was
13:11this is where we would sit all day and sketch rain or shine
13:15Denneb and Adam would tether the animals here
13:19if they were very excitable
13:22he'd put a little something in their feed
13:24to make them more manageable
13:25whiskey
13:27those highland cattle weren't leaning into the wind
13:31they were reeling
13:33really
14:03He taught me everything he could.
14:28And I've done so little with it.
14:30How disappointed he must be.
14:35How could he be?
14:37He recognised in you something that no amount of training could produce.
14:42Talent.
14:45Something I don't have.
14:47But that's nonsense. Of course you have.
14:49Edith, you haven't seen a single thing I've done.
14:52I don't need to. I can tell by your presence.
14:55More hocus pocus.
14:56Yes.
15:00I'm going out tomorrow early on my own.
15:06I must get some work done.
15:16Come in, Mrs. Adam.
15:17Ernest.
15:25I wanted to talk to you.
15:28You shouldn't be in here, Ernest.
15:29I know.
15:31Edith, I...
15:32You have bewitched me.
15:42Don't be silly.
15:44I'm under your spell.
15:45What shall I do?
15:47I can't paint with other people about.
15:49I'm afraid of them getting bored.
15:51I can't concentrate.
15:52But I'm used to that.
15:54It's my job.
15:59Good night, Ernest.
16:03Tomorrow, then?
16:06We'll see.
16:07We'll see.
16:07We'll see.
16:08We'll see.
16:09Bye-bye.
16:12Good night.
16:13Bye-bye.
16:17Bye-bye.
16:17Bye-bye.
16:18Bye-bye.
16:18I'm sorry.
16:40Good morning.
16:41Good morning.
16:42I expected to find Miss Holden here before me.
16:44Well I've set her a place.
16:46Will you take porridge, Mr. Smith?
16:48Please.
16:51Well, barely up she was indeed, Mr. Smith.
16:54Her bicycle's gone.
17:17August the 23rd.
17:19Went to sketch Highland cattle on the putting stone hill.
17:25Found numbers of beautiful little purple heartsees growing on the short turf.
17:30I came upon a big bog full of grass of Parnassus in the midst of the heather and juniper bushes.
17:43You're looking particularly beautiful.
18:00I haven't the heart even to try and find out why you set off so cruelly this morning.
18:14I wanted some time on my own.
18:18To think.
18:21I've been thinking too.
18:24I thought you liked me well enough.
18:26Of course.
18:27Then what is it that sends you so far away from me?
18:29I don't know what you want from me.
18:32Edith.
18:34Come and live in London.
18:36However lovely your work, you are wasted in a provincial suburb.
18:40Well, your father will manage without you.
18:41When you will see to that?
18:42That is out of the question.
18:44You must have misunderstood me.
18:45Perhaps.
18:47Why should you be so agitated?
18:50Do you know how old I am?
18:53Dear Ernest.
18:55So that's it.
18:57Why should you be so conventional?
19:00There are seven years between us and that is enough for me to put a stop to this foolishness.
19:04Well then, if you're so terribly old, you must need someone young and strong to look after you.
19:11Mock me when you can get up early enough to catch me.
19:14Oh no.
19:17Look, you will let me ride with you tomorrow.
19:20I'll get up any hour, you say.
19:28August the 25th.
19:30Cycled through Strathire and Loch Earn Head to St. Philins at the head of Loch Earn.
19:35The road runs for six miles close to the edge of the loch, with the water lapping up on one side
19:40and steep woods stretching up the hillside on the other.
19:44Haymaking is going on in all the valleys, many of which are flooded with the continuous rains.
19:49The berries on the bush are beginning to make themselves conspicuous, notably wild raspberries, which are very plentiful in the highlands, the roans, and the hips of a species of wild rose which has very large crimson fruit.
20:11I gathered the first blackberries at St. Philins.
20:20Shhh.
20:21Shhh.
20:22Shhh.
20:23Shhh.
20:24Shhh.
20:25Shhh.
20:26Shhh.
20:27Oh, that would've made a lovely picture.
20:28Oh, that would have made a lovely picture.
20:54People are a nuisance.
20:56Shhh.
20:58Mmm, delicious.
21:26The moorcocks spring on whirring wings among the blooming heather.
21:33Come, let us stray our gladsome way and view the charms of nature, the rustling cork, the
21:40fruited thaw, and every happy creature.
21:44Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
22:02hahahaha
22:04Remember what I said about London?
22:34I shall surprise you some day and simply turn up.
22:38That will shock your landlady.
22:40He will hear from me.
22:56She lived where the mountains go down to the sea,
23:00and river and tide confer.
23:03Golden Rowan of Meneloan was the name they gave to her.
23:11Her playmates for their lovers grew,
23:13but that shy wanderer, Golden Rowan of Meneloan,
23:17knew love was not for her.
23:21Hers was the love of wilding things.
23:24To hear a squirrel chirr in the Golden Rowan of Meneloan was joy enough for her.
23:32She sleeps on the hill with the lonely sun, where in the days that were, the Golden Rowan of Meneloan so often shadowed her.
23:42The scarlet fruit will come to fill, the scarlet spray to stir, the Golden Rowan of Meneloan, and wake no dream for her.
23:56Oh, that would have made a lovely picture.
24:02People are a nuisance.
24:04Mm, delicious.
24:06Only the wind is over her grave for mourner and comforter, and Golden Rowan of Meneloan is all we know of her.
24:23There has been almost continuous rain in Scotland this month,
24:37although in England it has been one of the sunniest months on record.
24:54Now, Edith, try to imagine yourself living the Bohemian life in a garret in London.
25:05At your age.
25:35å”åØęaley read.
25:37contemporä»„ę„ would.
25:38By the time the day...
25:39...ver defense entertainers,
25:41where are you going to work?
25:42On European night.
25:42Get back to us.
25:45Orć por SCOTO.
25:45Now, Edith, try to reach us.
25:45All living the hope of vardır.
25:46If you will have women,
25:49I hope for us will even be this.
25:51I'll let them be you guys again.
25:52In German telling people,
25:55there is a disgrace.
25:59AttWhite Guerne is life after a strong cocoa mud,
26:02there is a sacrifice,
26:03there is a sacrifice.
26:04You live the Marxo and achieveŃŠ¾ŃŠøŠ½Š°,
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